diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 9055332..7365451 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -20,21 +20,22 @@ name: release
 # and tsc first. So the build happens ONCE, here, and the asset is the
 # runnable tree: bin/, dist/, production node_modules/, package.json.
 on:
+  # ONE push key, both filters — YAML maps are last-key-wins, so a second
+  # sibling `push:` would silently REPLACE the first and kill a door
+  # (grok's round-2 catch: the tag fallback had stopped triggering).
   push:
     # Every tag, not a shape filter (box's and rig's precedent): a tag that
     # mismatches package.json — a habitual v0.1.0, a typo — must fail the
     # assert LOUDLY below, not be silently skipped by a pattern that didn't
     # match.
     tags: ["**"]
-  push:
     # The merge-is-the-release path (#111) rides pushes to MAIN, not
-    # pull_request events, for one load-bearing reason the first review
-    # round caught: a workflow run triggered by a pull_request from a
-    # public FORK gets a READ-ONLY GITHUB_TOKEN — `permissions:` cannot
-    # raise that ceiling — and every ceremony PR this org has ever merged
-    # is cross-repo from the bot fork. The asserts would pass and the tag
-    # create would 403, red on main, every release. A push to main is an
-    # in-repo event with the full write token, whoever authored the PR.
+    # pull_request events: a pull_request run from a public FORK gets a
+    # READ-ONLY GITHUB_TOKEN — `permissions:` cannot raise that ceiling —
+    # and every ceremony PR this org merges is cross-repo from the bot
+    # fork; the tag create would 403 after green asserts. A push to main
+    # is an in-repo event with the full write token, whoever authored the
+    # PR. The steps split on the pushed ref.
     branches: [main]
 
 permissions:
diff --git a/test/release.test.ts b/test/release.test.ts
index 8234e31..51a6305 100644
--- a/test/release.test.ts
+++ b/test/release.test.ts
@@ -185,12 +185,14 @@ describe("release.yml", () => {
     // intent — is read via the API off the merge commit's PR, and a
     // transition with no labeled PR behind it refuses.
     expect(RY).toContain("branches: [main]");
+    // YAML maps are last-key-wins: a second sibling push: key silently
+    // replaces the first and kills a door (grok's round-2 catch — the tag
+    // fallback had stopped triggering). Exactly ONE push key may exist.
+    expect(RY.match(/^  push:$/gm)).toHaveLength(1);
     expect(RY).toContain("startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')");
     expect(RY).toContain("github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'");
     expect(RY).toContain("commits/$GITHUB_SHA/pulls");
-    expect(RY).toContain(
-      "no merged, release-labeled PR is behind this commit",
-    );
+    expect(RY).toContain("no merged, release-labeled PR is behind this commit");
     expect(RY).not.toContain("pull_request:");
   });